Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

;;:;Io6 X. THE NUT-BROWN MAID.And of you bothe, eche shuld be wrothe wzU other, as ItroweIt were myn ease to lyue in pease ; so wyl I, yf I canWherfore I to the wode wyl goo, alone, a banysshid man.' 15026.*Though in the wood I vndirstode ye had a paramour,All this may nought remeue my thought, but Mat I wil be. yourAnd she shal fynde me softe and kynde, and curteis eueryour,Glad to fulfylle all that she wylie co/wmaunde me, to mypower ;For had ye, loo ! an hondred moo, yet wolde I be thatone; 155For in my mynde, of all mankynde, I loue but you alone.'27.'Myn owne dere loue, I see the proue that ye be kynde andtreweOf mayde and wyf, in al my lyf, the best //lat euer I knewe.Be mery and glad, be no more sad, the case is chau;2gedFor itnewewere ruthe, that for your trouth you shuld haue causeto rewe. 160Be not dismayed ; what-socuer I sayd to you, whan I began,I wyl not too the grene wod goo, I am noo banysshyd man.'28.*Theis tidingis be more glad to me, than to be made aqueue,Yf I were sure they shuld endure; but it is often seen,